As always a great diorama! So much to discover !!! So much to see!Airplane, figures, the representation of the water and and and .. is all beautiful.What really excites me - it does not follow a joke - is the factory wall. So many details !!! No boredom gray wall but a piece of jewelry. Cracks, fallen plaster, bricks, rainmarks, stains and and ... the fantastic lettering. Top also the gate. Beautifully rusted and rotten. An eye-catcher !!!!! Great!!!

Hee Wiking good work So that's what you needed those problematic letters for.Making some fun about clumsy Jap's again

Two subjects that have my special interest:1) waterplanes (but especially the biggest ones with 4 or 6 engines)2) Japanese factories.

Did anyone ever build a model of a Japanese factory before?Did anybody ever see a picture of a Japanese pre-1945 factory?

Thinking of old Japan most of us see buildings of wood, rooftiles and paper windows in our mind. After nuking Hiroshima only one building was still standing: the 'only' concrete and iron building in town, still a monument today. But Japanese industrial era started already before 1900. There must have been thousands of 'modern' looking factories by 1940 already but we never ever see pictures of those. Did you do research? Most of what I could find is bombed factories on pictures taken by American occupiers.

Remarkable to see how your imagination about Japan during the war goes further than the usual Pacific front.

Mr. Cryns wrote:Did anyone ever build a model of a Japanese factory before?

The ship modeller (1/700) get a lot of harbor house stuff for the IJN. If this count.In 1/72 European factories. Of building Panther, Tiger or T 34. Destroyed one I have seen too.I remember one member of this forum do a section with a lot of workers from Alexminiatures.They build a Robot. But Japanese ones? A interesting question. I do not have think about it. I can`t give in this case a proper answer.

Mr. Cryns wrote:Did anybody ever see a picture of a Japanese pre-1945 factory?Did you do research?

I find a heroic b/w film section of adding parts to the F1M2. Probably inside a Mitsubishi factory.

My idea was that the three wooden stick in the water show the outskirt of a city. The concrete building with the big pipe was planned for what you like, not for Mitsubishi. But very early after the beginning of the US air raid they change to this place who was not entirely build for service a plane. The color plan that I choose to 90% in the instruction are written to may 1944 for this plane.The bad condition of the big letter are achieved of a lower quality paint. This should indicate the shortage due to the USN blockade and the USAAF start to work everywhere.

Mr. Cryns wrote:Remarkable to see how your imagination about Japan during the war goes further than the usual Pacific front.

Hey, you are right. A splendid objection! And what do I build in the past for IJA? A few pacific Dio.

Just an idea. Why not to print your own decals in white or transparent A4 sheet? Laser print decals is a safe solution. Laser printers is rather cheap now. Or you can print your designs at bookstores or shops that make photocopies.And I'll ask at least a question:Please explain to me about the bird.

FredG is right (again) about the text (of course)Kostis is right too about what he says about your details: so many excellent details. The longer I look, the more I see. Poisoned waste water flowing into the sea. The fish will die soon. I would not try to catch some at that spot. Worn out paint on the planes wings, well done too.

Only that typically European little saling boat looks brand new, very uptight and clean. How did it get there? Maybe you should throw some motor oil over it